Woman who left baby in cooler sentenced to more than 13 years in prison

7:16 PM,
Oct. 18, 2013

Carolyn Renee Miller was sentenced Friday to 13.25 years in prison and six years of drug offender probation in after pleading no contest to aggravated manslaughter of a child and improper disposal of a human body in August.

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Ja'veon Mitchell would have been 3 years old today, if he hadn't been neglected and stuffed in a cooler. He died of unknown causes in 2011.

"He would have been talking, running, playing," said Assistant State Attorney Julia Lynch. "They're so engaging at three years of age, there's so much they can do."

Lynch prosecuted the woman who was supposed to care for Ja'veon. In August, Carolyn Renee Miller pleaded no contest to aggravated manslaughter of a child and improper disposal of a human body. Miller, now 42, was sentenced Friday to 13.25 years in prison and six years of drug offender probation, ...